>Hello-
>I'm just getting back into running listserv, and have forgotten some of
>the finer details.
>
>We have several "announcement" lists that are posted to only once a
>week or so.   They have the default auto-delete value set
>(yes,semi-auto,delay(4),max(100)), so the owners will receive back a
>list of bad addresses being monitored. However, those addresses are
>never deleted, and each weekly posting simply returns the same list of
>monitored addresses.
>
>I think the problem is that the 4 day delay only works if there are
>other postings within those four days.  If not, the monitored addresses
>are cleared after 5 days, and each posting begins the monitoring
>process over again.  Is this correct, or am I misunderstanding the
>manual and monitoring message?

That's correct.  What you might want to do is something like

Auto-Delete= Yes,Full-Auto,Delay(25),Max(3)

That way any address that generates three bounces over 25 days (a bit
more than three weeks) will be deleted.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
--
Jacob Haller, Technical Support
L-Soft international, Inc
http://www.lsoft.com/